Courses Taught (Fall 2017)

Office Hours

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1:00 P.M. - 3:00 P.M.

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1:00 P.M. - 2:00 P.M.

Biography:

Ali Alalou is an Associate professor of French and Pedagogy. Professor Alalou teaches courses in French language, French linguistics, and pedagogy; he often teaches Arabic language and culture when Arabic faculty take students abroad. Professor Alalou’s interests are not limited to pedagogy and French linguistics. His areas of interest include Afro-asiatic linguistics (Particularly Tamazight also known as Berber), and North African sociolinguistics and language planning. He is the Sequence Supervisor for the French program and serves as the Foreign Language Education Coordinator. Professor Alalou is the French Credit Evaluator for French and less commonly taught languages in the Foreign Languages Department.

Degrees:

Ph.D., French Linguistics, University of California, Davis

Certificate in College Teaching. University of California, Davis

MA, Teaching French as a Second Language. The Research Center for Applied Linguistics and Pedagogy of Language Teaching (CRAPEL) at the University of Nancy II, Nancy, France

The Butter Man. Charlesbridge Publishing, 2008.

As young Nora waits impatiently for her mother to come home from work and for her father to serve the long-simmering couscous that smells so delicious, her father tells her about his childhood in Morocco. During a famine, when Nora’s grandfather had to travel far to find work and bring food for the family, her father learned the valuable life lessons of patience, perseverance, and hope.

Projects:

Professor Alalou is presently working on a project titled: “Sociolinguistics of Francophonie in the Maghreb: the politics of Language and the Language of politics.” (Professor Alalou is working with on this book project with a French acquisition editor, who is interested in this project).

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“I want to see students hunger to use their French out in the world – then deepen their experience through more study and reflection in the classroom. Together, these complementary ways of learning enrich us in so many ways, and keep human understanding at the core of education.”